At Atchison, the Kansas Relief Committee reports on its efforts to aid the drought-stricken territory

12/28/1860

The Kansas Relief Committee reported from Atchison that it now had distributed 157,700 pounds of supplies to twenty-one counties in the territory. Kansas was in the grip of a nine-month drought that threatened to depopulate large sections as farmers pulled up stakes. Relief supplies and cash had flowed in from around the country; more than 200,000 pounds of wheat, corn, and beans had been received in just the preceding week. (By John Osborne)

Source Citation:

"The Kansas Relief Committee Report," New York Herald, December 29, 1860, p. 7.